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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to ensure that opportunities are provided in Northern Kenya. We need to ensure affirmative action in terms of availing more resources to these areas, so that we can educate them. Just this afternoon, we talked about the opportunities of nomadic boarding schools. So, you cannot have a national blanket of reducing capitation from 4,000 to 3,000 and infrastructure because the money has been reduced, while at the same time we have a policy framework that says we should identify and prioritize particular areas, because that is the way to address these particular areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to me that is the essence of this Report. We owe it to Africa and the world as a country, a Government and as the Legislature to ensure that peace prevails in Somalia. We have to make sure that there is a profile of peace efforts. What we are doing is not enough. We are doing our best and I appreciate what the Government is doing. I have had occasion to praise the efforts by the Kenyan Government. However, the Government needs to present the issues of Somalia in the international forum. We need to make the agenda of Somalia not just a Mogadishu/Nairobi affair. This agenda needs to be prosecuted in IGAD. To the extent that we have Puntland and Somaliland which are already havens of peace, why do we keep lumping them together? It is the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committees in this House and we are not the only ones. Ours of last year was the second one from this Parliament. The British House of Commons has sent a delegation to Somaliland. However, we keep saying that they are the same when actually there is a clear-cut area in which people are managing their own things without international assistance and without any serious revenue base. To me, part of those peace efforts will be to recognize some of these areas that have already demonstrated in real terms that they can manage their own affairs effectively and create peace. These include the Horn of Africa that we have designated as a failed case. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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